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Le Monde Musical. Frezzolini.
Lith Bertauts, R.Cadet, 11, Paris. Ch. Vogt. 1855.
Publication de la Maison-Brandus.
Lithograph with gold-leaf border, rare, on album page. 336 x 260mm. 13¼ x 10¼". Foxing.
Standing and resting on the back of a chair to the right; her right elbow and left hand on the back rest. Erminia Frezzolini (1818-1884) was an Italian operatic soprano. Along with Henrietta Sontag, she was one of the leading operatic sopranos of her generation. She excelled in the coloratura soprano repertoire, drawing particular acclaim in the bel canto operas of Donizetti and Bellini. She was married to tenor Antonio Poggi from 1841-1846. She made her debut in the title role of Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence in 1837. She quickly debuted in all the major opera houses in Italy in 1839 she made her debuts at La Scala, in Pisa, Reggio Emilia and Perugia. Throughout her life she also made appearances in St Petersburg, London, Madrid, Vienna, Paris, and throughout North America. She finally retired in 1874.
In the BNF. Harvard: 6.
[Ref: 23682] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Lith Bertauts, R.Cadet, 11, Paris. Ch. Vogt. 1855.
Publication de la Maison-Brandus.
Lithograph with gold-leaf border, rare, on album page. 336 x 260mm. 13¼ x 10¼". Foxing.
Standing and resting on the back of a chair to the right; her right elbow and left hand on the back rest. Erminia Frezzolini (1818-1884) was an Italian operatic soprano. Along with Henrietta Sontag, she was one of the leading operatic sopranos of her generation. She excelled in the coloratura soprano repertoire, drawing particular acclaim in the bel canto operas of Donizetti and Bellini. She was married to tenor Antonio Poggi from 1841-1846. She made her debut in the title role of Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence in 1837. She quickly debuted in all the major opera houses in Italy in 1839 she made her debuts at La Scala, in Pisa, Reggio Emilia and Perugia. Throughout her life she also made appearances in St Petersburg, London, Madrid, Vienna, Paris, and throughout North America. She finally retired in 1874.
In the BNF. Harvard: 6.
[Ref: 23682] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
No. 2. Paul et Virginie. Madame de la Tour reprit la lettre en en fit la lecture devant toute la famille rassemblée...
Peint par M.lle Adèle Ferrand. Lith. par Ch. Vogt. Imp. par Lemercier, à Paris.
Paris: V.or Delarue & C.e, Place du Louvre 10 [n.d., 1855].
Lithograph on chine collé, publisher's blind stamp. Printed area 570 x 415mm (22½ x 16¼"). Very large margins spotted and soiled, with a few tears in margins.
A scene from the novel 'Paul et Virginie', by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: Madame de la Tour reads a letter to Paul and Virginie, a white servant and black slave girl. Set on Mauritius, the novel is a parable of the social divisions in French society on the eve of the Revolution.
[Ref: 48512] £480.00
Peint par M.lle Adèle Ferrand. Lith. par Ch. Vogt. Imp. par Lemercier, à Paris.
Paris: V.or Delarue & C.e, Place du Louvre 10 [n.d., 1855].
Lithograph on chine collé, publisher's blind stamp. Printed area 570 x 415mm (22½ x 16¼"). Very large margins spotted and soiled, with a few tears in margins.
A scene from the novel 'Paul et Virginie', by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: Madame de la Tour reads a letter to Paul and Virginie, a white servant and black slave girl. Set on Mauritius, the novel is a parable of the social divisions in French society on the eve of the Revolution.
[Ref: 48512] £480.00